Table 1.
Search strategy for PubMed
| Search | Search terms |
| #1 | ‘Chronic kidney disease’ OR ‘Chronic renal failure’ OR ‘Chronic kidney insufficiency’ OR ‘Chronic renal insufficiency’ OR ‘Chronic kidney failure’ OR ‘End-Stage Renal Disease’ OR ‘end/target-renal damage’ OR nephropathy OR ‘proteinuria’ OR ‘dialysis-dependent’ |
| #2 | ‘Cardiovascular disease’ OR ‘Cardiac disease’ OR ‘Cardiovascular event’ OR Heart disease OR ‘Coronary heart disease’ OR ‘Myocardial infarction’ OR ‘Myocardial ischemia’ OR ‘Cerebrovascular disease’ OR Stroke OR ‘Brain ischemia’ OR ‘Cerebral hemorrhage’ OR ‘Heart failure’ OR ‘Cardiac failure’ OR ‘Congestive heart failure’ OR ‘Ventricular dysfunction Heart failure’ OR ‘Atrial Fibrillation’ Or ‘Cardiac arrhythmia’ OR ‘Peripheral arterial disease’ OR ‘Intermittent claudication’ OR ‘Sudden cardiac death’ Or ‘Sudden cardiac arrest’ |
| #3 | ((Afghanistan [tiab] OR Albania [tiab] OR Algeria [tiab] OR American Samoa [tiab] OR Angola [tiab] OR Argentina [tiab] OR Armenia [tiab] OR Azerbaijan [tiab] OR Bangladesh [tiab] OR Belarus [tiab] OR Belize [tiab] OR Benin [tiab] OR Bhutan [tiab] OR Bolivia [tiab] OR Bosnia and Herzegovina [tiab] OR Botswana [tiab] OR Brazil [tiab] OR Bulgaria [tiab] OR Burkina Faso [tiab] OR Burundi [tiab] OR Cabo Verde [tiab] OR Cambodia [tiab] OR Cameroon [tiab] OR ‘Central African Republic’ [tiab] OR Chad [tiab] OR China [tiab] OR Colombia [tiab] OR Comoros [tiab] OR Congo, Dem. Rep. [tiab] OR Congo, Rep. [tiab] OR Costa Rica [tiab] OR ‘Ivory Coast’ [tiab] OR ‘Cote d'Ivoire’ [tiab] OR Cuba [tiab] OR Djibouti [tiab] OR Dominica [tiab] OR ‘Dominican Republic’ [tiab] OR Ecuador [tiab] OR ‘Egypt’. [tiab] OR El Salvador [tiab] OR ‘Equatorial Guinea [tiab]’ OR Eritrea [tiab] OR Ethiopia [tiab] OR Fiji [tiab] OR Gabon [tiab] OR Gambia [tiab] OR Georgia [tiab] OR Ghana [tiab] OR Grenada [tiab] OR Guatemala [tiab] OR Guinea [tiab] OR Guinea-Bissau [tiab] OR Guyana [tiab] OR Haiti [tiab] OR Honduras [tiab] OR India [tiab] OR Indonesia [tiab] OR Iran, Islamic Rep. [tiab] OR Iraq [tiab] OR Jamaica [tiab] OR Jordan [tiab] OR Kazakhstan [tiab] OR Kenya [tiab] OR Kiribati [tiab] OR ‘Korea, Dem. People's Rep.’ [tiab] OR Kosovo [tiab] OR ‘Kyrgyz Republic’ [tiab] OR Lao PDR [tiab] OR Lebanon [tiab] OR Lesotho [tiab] OR Liberia [tiab] OR Libya [tiab] OR Macedonia [tiab] OR Madagascar [tiab] OR Malawi [tiab] OR Malaysia [tiab] OR Maldives [tiab] OR Mali [tiab] OR Marshall Islands [tiab] OR Mauritania [tiab] OR Mauritius [tiab] OR Mexico [tiab] OR Micronesia [tiab] OR Moldova [tiab] OR Mongolia [tiab] OR Montenegro [tiab] OR Morocco [tiab] OR Mozambique [tiab] OR Myanmar [tiab] OR Namibia [tiab] OR Nepal [tiab] OR Nicaragua [tiab] OR Niger [tiab] OR Nigeria [tiab] OR Pakistan [tiab] OR Palau [tiab] OR Panama [tiab] OR Papua New Guinea [tiab] OR Paraguay [tiab] OR Peru [tiab] OR Philippines [tiab] OR Romania [tiab] OR ‘Russian Federation’ [tiab] OR Rwanda [tiab] OR Samoa [tiab] OR ‘São Tomé and Princip’ [tiab] OR Senegal [tiab] OR Serbia [tiab] OR ‘Sierra Leone’ [tiab] OR Solomon Islands [tiab] OR Somalia [tiab] OR ‘South Africa’ [tiab] OR South Sudan [tiab] OR Sri Lanka [tiab] OR St. Lucia [tiab] OR St. Vincent and the Grenadines [tiab] OR Sudan [tiab] OR Suriname [tiab] OR Swaziland [tiab] OR Syrian Arab Republic [tiab] OR Tajikistan [tiab] OR Tanzania [tiab] OR Thailand [tiab] OR Timor-Leste [tiab] OR Togo [tiab] OR Tonga [tiab] OR Tunisia [tiab] OR Turkey [tiab] OR Turkmenistan [tiab] OR Tuvalu [tiab] OR Uganda [tiab] OR Ukraine [tiab] OR Uzbekistan [tiab] OR Vanuatu [tiab] OR Venezuela [tiab] OR Vietnam [tiab] OR West Bank and Gaza [tiab] OR Yemen, Rep. [tiab] OR Zambia [tiab] OR Zimbabwe [tiab])) |
| #4 | #1 AND #2 AND #3 |
| #5 | # 4 Limits: 1987/05/01 to 2017/07/01 |